On Mon, 19 Feb 2018 08:46:50 -0500, Steve Smith wrote: >You need to set flag "S99NOCNV Do not use an existing allocation to satisfy >this request." But I don't know if BPXWDYN allows this. > I thought such an option was added to BPXWDYN several years ago, but I can't find it in the Ref.
I thought that BPXWDN lately supports a recherché facility for supplying an arbitrary TU, but I can't find it in the Ref. It's not my day. Ask about BPXWDYN S99NOCNV in MVS-OE. Someone there knows. >Depends on what you call a bug... DYNALLOC itself has driven me crazy with >all the various flags and options trying to figure out "convertible", etc. > I suspect some of these were desperate attempts to improve performance in the Bad Old Days. Same as lazy "VARY OFFLINE". Why is special authorization needed to mount a virtual tape? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
